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We are Robe

We are Robe.

Home to one of the larger Latvian-speaking communities in South Australia, and 4 other language communities besides.

Our population
1,519
Speak another language
111
Languages at home
5+
Growth since last census
+125.0%
5 languages are spoken at home in Robe. Latvian leads (9 speakers), with Portuguese close behind (5). 7 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Latvian at home
9
Our largest community language, Latvian, is spoken by 0.6% of Robe residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Latvian
9 speakers

9 speakers, 0.6% of Robe. +125% since 2021.

Portuguese
5 speakers

5 speakers, 0.3% of Robe.

Ngarrindjeri
4 speakers

4 speakers, 0.3% of Robe.

The languages of Robe

5 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

Latvian
9 · +125.0%
Portuguese
5 · 0.0%
Ngarrindjeri
4 · 0.0%
Maori (New Zealand)
3 · 0.0%
Thai
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Latvian9 · 0.6%
    125.0%
  2. 02
    Portuguese5 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  3. 03
    Ngarrindjeri4 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  4. 04
    Maori (New Zealand)3 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  5. 05
    Thai3 · 0.2%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Latvian
+125.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are
In context
Robe
7.3%
South Australia
21.5%
Australia
27.1%

7.3% of Robe residents speak a language other than English at home, against 21.5% for South Australia and 27.1% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.